Movies: Polish Film Institute

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film ...

Basia has already settled down in her life. She is a housewife and has a loving family. It seems as though she does not miss anything to be happy. Until a moment when an opera diva moves into an apartment upstairs. Basia is enchanted and seduced with...

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Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children’s homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated ...

Maciek is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. He wants to satisfy the ambitions of his father, and - as everyone in the family - be a butcher. But he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. The boy directs all his warm feelings towards ...

Disillusioned private investigator Djonny is called in to investigate a murder in a refugee camp. However, he becomes increasingly unstable when he confronts a cyber witch who gradually takes control of his life....

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It's a story of a young woman from Warsaw - Iwona who has two children and works in a supermarket. He lives with his unemployed husband in a block of flats. They are always short of money - that causes many quarrels and destroys their relationship . ...

During part verité, part exposé road trip, director Pawel Gula proves there is no honor in killing. The film juxtaposes horrific news footage with insights from the families of victims whose lives have been irreparably altered and the killers who a...

Colombian girl, who studies law in France, arrives to Sarajevo in order to write a study about the War Crimes Tribunal. Unexpectedly she finds herself in the center of the intimate tragedy of her new friend, a native woman....

In a local sports center, a man with a great need to talk but little to say recounts a recent dream to a nearby colleague, with deeply confusing and unexpected results....

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The world as we know it is dying before our very eyes. At a secret military centre somewhere on the Polish seacoast, scientists and the military are conducting research on a technology to transform repeat offenders with life sentences into animals. A...

A young woman, Anna, is getting ready to make her own movie. After a while, she discovers that she is just a heroine in the movie and nothing really depends on her. Rebellious against the author, she writes her own film, recreating the characters fro...

Wanting to leave their hometown, two friends set off on a military campaign in Afghanistan. When they return, it appears that their hometown is no longer the same....

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish....

After twenty years in prison, a man returns to his homeland to wait for death in peace. His world is completely changed when he accidentally meets a character from the magical world of nature....

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To impress his beloved, Adam forms a punk rock band....

Young and ambitious Kamila lives in a world where overweight defines the ideal of beauty and determines social status. The more you weigh, the more you are respected. When Kamila’s thinness is exposed, she is fired from work and dumped by her boyfrie...